The EMS promotes the exchange of experiences on innovative models for urban
environmental management among the cities of Latin America and the
Caribbean. Research
centres, working together with municipalities of the region, offer the results of research
funded by the EMS as well as information on the operational context and on the
participating experts and institutions. The objective is to facilitate
comparison,
transfer of results and direct consultation on each one of these
experiences. In this area, the EMS facilitates access to all this
information.
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A Seminar
organised in the city of Montevideo (1997) by the Merco Cities Network, the
Inter-American
Development Bank, the Ibero-American
Urban Strategic Development Centre, the Municipality of Montevideo and the International Development Research Centre, allowed for the
analysis of coastal management issues, urban regeneration and sustainability and
institutional coordination, that governments of coastal cities in the Southern Cone of the
Americas face. As a result of this Seminar, the EMS promotes and facilitates access
to information and creates links between specialised research centres and municipalities
to analyse possible improvements in the governmental programmes of these coastal
cities. |
The permanent growth of urban societies
(population, economy, production) poses one of
the greatest challenges for the efficient management of the urban environment in the Latin
America and the Caribbean region. Not being able to respond to demands derived from this
urban growth sets limits to the search for models to reorganise
responsibilities,
including associations with the private sector as well as with expressions of the civil
society. The EMS promotes links between research centres dealing with these issues
by conducting comparative analyses of association models used and considering
mainly:
mechanisms for financing, social participation structure and negotiation mechanisms to
meet social, economic and environmental objectives, as well as monitoring mechanisms to
check their compliance with agreed objectives. |
IDRC together with the EMS
have started a search for potential instruments to analyse and understand
cultural assessment alternatives and the management of cultural and
natural heritage in sustainable development programmes in Latin America
and the Caribbean.
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